Posted on 02/08/2023 10:08:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv
On the muddy shores of a lake in east-central Germany, Neanderthals gathered some 125,000 years ago to butcher massive elephants. With sharp stone tools, they harvested up to 4 tons of flesh from each animal, according to a new study that is casting these ancient human relatives in a new light. The degree of organization required to carry out the butchery—and the sheer quantity of food it provided—suggests Neanderthals could form much larger social groups than previously thought.
The find comes from a trove of animal bones and stone tools uncovered in the 1980s by coal miners near the town of Neumark-Nord. Beginning in 1985, archaeologists spent a decade observing the mining work, recovering animal bones and stone tools from a sprawling site. Dating to a relatively warm period in Europe known as the Eemian interglacial... the discoveries include the bones and tusks of more than 70 mostly adult male straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), an extinct species almost twice the size of modern African elephants that stood nearly 4 meters tall at the shoulder. Most had been left in dozens of piles along the ancient lakeshore over the course of about 300 years...
Gouges and scratches on nearly every bone show the hunters were thorough. "They really went for every scrap of meat and fat," says University of Leiden archaeologist and study co-author Wil Roebroeks. The bones hadn't been gnawed by scavengers like wolves or hyenas, suggesting nothing was left for them.
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But did they have Elephant Burger Helper?
Clovis peoples also hunted and ate elephants ...
[[We need new headline writers!]]
Will
Super large Neanderthal groups ate everything on their plates no matter how large the portions because they wuz like, you know, super hungry
work?
Libtards have been killing republicans for a long time
So easy a cave man could do it
Oh, man, roast elephant, elephant burgers, elephant casserole, elephant kebabs, elephant ravioli, elephant sausages, night after night... I’d go extinct too.
Giant elephants?
Are there any other kind?...............
“So those huge ribs on The Flintstones were no comic exaggeration.”
LOL. My thoughts immediately went to Fred Flintstone’s rib dinners, as well.
‘Round here, we call that “Superbowl Sunday”
In Alabama the Tuscaloosa
But that’s irrelephant.
Apologies to Groucho Marx.
Or at least there used to be.
On the island of Cyprus there used to be a elephant that was about six feet tall. While not miniature it was not exactly giant.
Well, you can’t eat them one sandwich at a time now, can you?
republicants...
I’m 5’9”.
Anything bigger than me is GIANT!...............
He is extinct and we are not related to him other than via similar design
I am 5’ 1” (and a fraction) cry me a river. :)
Wrong again, Ted.
All my relatives are 6 foot or better.
How the heck did I get the short gene?....................
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